Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
The Mystery of the Melungeons
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
Black in Appalachia S1 E10 – Melungeons
Melungeon Voices S5 E7 – Melungeon and Redbone Ancestral Connections
Kings Mountain and Its Heroes
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole
Erasures of the Past: Culture, Power, and Heterogeneity in Appalachia
Research Like a Pro With DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors With DNA Evidence
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
Up Cutshin & Down Greasy: Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family
Melungeon Voices S1 E7 – Wayne WinklerMelungeon Voices S3 Bonus – Live from the 2022 Author Event
1870 U.S. Census – Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky
The Highland Clans
Myths of the Cherokee
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend
Women Speak, Volume 5 (Women of Appalachia Project)
1860 U.S. Census – Panther Creek, Hancock County, Tennessee
Belonging: A Culture of Place
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories
Tennessee, The Volunteer State 1769 – 1923
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb
Boogers, Witches, and Haints: Appalachian Ghost Stories
Melungeon Voices
The Legend of the Chiscas: From Viking to Melungeon?
From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue
Making Indians “White”: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and Its Racial LegacyMelungeon Voices S4 E7 – Dr. José Pimienta-Bey
Your DNA Guide – the Book
Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
Colonial-Era Wool Production + Buckskins & Hog Slaughters
Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
Southern Folk Medicine 1750-1820
Wisdom’s Daughter’s: Conversations with Women Elders of Native AmericaMarcus Garvey Revisited: Eugenics
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
History and Heritage Made Accessible: The Lee County, Virginia StoryMelungeon Voices S5 E6 – At-Risk Populations of Appalachia & Southern U.S.
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North CarolinaMelungeon Voices S5 E3 – Discovering Melungeon & Indigenous Ancestry
Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World’s Largest Free Genealogy Website
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
History of Kentucky, Volume 1
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
A Peculiar People: The Melungeons
Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era
Pell Mellers: Race and Memory in a Carolina Pocosin
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
Living Stories of the Cherokee
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
The Forgotten Portuguese: The Melungeons and Other Groups
The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race
The Lost Continent – Travels in Small-Town America
Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North CarolinaGod + Snake Handling Churches of Appalachia
A Wandering Tribe: Dispersal of the Catawba Nation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
“Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early SouthMelungeon Voices S4 E2 – Dr. Kathy Lyday
Free Blacks in Colonial America
“The Melungeons of Appalachia”, Heather Andolina (Day 2)
Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends
Redbone Chronicles
The Indelible Appalachians
The Catawba Nation
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives
1880 U.S. Census – District 91, Hancock County, Tennessee
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
DNA for Native American Genealogy
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: A Portfolio of PortraitsMelungeon Voices S4 E1 – Kiran Singh Sirah
Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia
Women, Race & Class
Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
Episode 16: Pre-Deliverance, Part 2
A Panel of Ancestry Informative Markers for Estimating Individual Biogeographical Ancestry and Admixture From Four Continents: Utility and Applications
Adventures in the Gene Pool
The Berbers of Morocco: A History of Resistance
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: An Insider’s Perspective
Are Redbones and Melungeons Related?
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Daughter of the Legend
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-Non-indigenous Relationships
Roots, Branches & Spirits: The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: A Reader in Black Women’s History
The Untold History of the Tuscaroras Who Remained in North Carolina
Out of the Woods
The Lambert Tapes, Volume Two: Cherokee History
The American South as We Know It
Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation
The Harris Family of Orange County, North Carolina: 318 Years of Black-American Indian Culture
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms
The Wilderness Road: A Description of the Routes of Travel by Which the Pioneer and Early Settlers First Came to KentuckyMelungeon Voices S3 E2 – Mike Richards + Tim Webb
Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond
History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia
Kentucky Folklore
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants
Big Stone Gap
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
A Note on the Melungeons
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and HollersMelungeon Voices S4 E3 – Joshua OutseyGinseng Diggers: A History of Root Gathering in Appalachia
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
Our Foothills III: Another Anthology by the Foothills WritersThe Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
Melungeons Out of the Dungeon
Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater Red River Basin
The MelungeonsEpisode 10: No Safe Harbor, Part 1
Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided
Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New TurfFreedman of the Five Civilized Tribes
Sang Spell
Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South
1830 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
What It Means to Identify as Melungeon
Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815The Black Potter + an Ugly Jug Named Slave
1820 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
We Are All Catawba: Complete Genealogy of My Daddy’s Catawba Ancestors
1800 U.S. Census – Morgan Twp, Ashe County, North Carolina
Wise County Virginia
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, TennesseeMelungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”
Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia
1820 U.S. Census – Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky
Erasure & Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina
The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: Trace Your Roots, Share Your History, and Create a Family Tree
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568Episode 14: Black Paddywhackery, Part 2
Squaw WinterMelungeon Voices S2 E1 – Kimberly Knight
A History of the Valley of Virginia
Catawba Nation: Treasures in History
A Question of Indian Identity in the Plecker Era: The Monacan Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shantyboat People
Zotero for Genealogy: Harnessing the Power of Your Research
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
The Lambert Tapes, Volume Three: Cherokee HistoryMelungeon Voices S2 E5 – Onur Kaya
Tennessee Templars: A Register of Names, With Biographical Sketches, of the Knights Templar of Tennessee, and Brief Histories of the Grand and Subordinate CommanderiesEpisode 17: Pre-Deliverance, Part 3
Appalachian Folklore Unveiled: Mysterious Happenings of Folk Spirits and Mystic Shades from the Ancient Foothills
The Many Faces of Melungeon AncestryMelungeon Voices S2 E4 – William Isom II
To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case StudiesMelungeon Voices S4 E6 – Scott Withrow
Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History
Voices Worth the Listening: Three Women of AppalachiaMelungeon Voices S5 E1 – Southern & Appalachian Folk Medicine
The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
Turtle Island
Silent Matriarchs
“We Are Still Here”: American Indians Since 1890
Our Side of the Mountain: A Pocahontas to Melungeon Revolution
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide
An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia’s Melungeons
Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution
Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia
Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky
Smoky Mountain Mysteries: Stories About Magnificent Mountains Unique People
Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and ForestsMelungeon Voices S1 E1 – Frederick Murphy
Voices from the North Carolina Mountains: Appalachian Oral Histories
Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing: A Collection of Old-Time Remedies, Charms, and Spells
Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians
Singing Down the Preacher
Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, KentuckyMelungeon Ties
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Boone Before Boone: The Archaeological Record of Northwestern North Carolina Through 1769
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The Catawba Indians: The People of the RiverMelungeon Voices S3 E1 – Ramona Moore Big Eagle
Mixing in the Mountains
Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Housekeeping in Old Virginia
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky
The Farfarers: A New History of North America
Folklore of Highland County, Ohio
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee
The Southeastern Indians
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
Tazewell County (Images of America)
A Church Book for Stony Creek ChurchMelungeon Voices S2 E3 – LaTonya Beatty
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Tending the Bones
Old Greasybeard: Tales from the Cumberland Gap
The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and KentuckyThe Melungeons: Red, Black and White in the Old South
Forbidden Love: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America
Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate
Sorry You Missed It: Memoirs of Growing Up in an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Lee County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental JusticePower, Light & Outmigration
Secret Genealogy IV: Native Americans Hidden in Our Family TreesMelungeon Voices S2 E7 – Dr. Arwin Smallwood
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Researching and Writing
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800
“Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman’s Ridge
Cherokee Ancestry Resource Guide
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. III
A History of Blacks in Kentucky from Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891
The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times
The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History & Identity in the African American Experience
La Florida: Spanish Exploration & Settlement in North America, 1500 to 1600Melungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground Railroad
A Darkness at Dawn: Appalachian Kentucky and the Future
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to RemovalMelungeon Voices S3 E7 – Dr. Melissa Carver
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology
Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River: The History of African Americans and People of Color Living on the Eno
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
A Melungeon Winter
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work
Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist SubdenominationsMelungeon Voices S4 E5 – Melinda Trueblood StimpsonMelungeon Memories Project
The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. IMelungeon Voices S1 E2 – Beverly Scarlett
Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution
Gibson Family Genealogy: A Melungeon Line
The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America
Joara: Tale of the New World, 1566 – 1568
Sheer Resilience: An Untold Story of a Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C.
Kentucky Genealogical Research
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
Toward a New History of the Appalachian SouthMelungeon Voices S5 E5 – Overcoming Generational Trauma and Melungeon Resilience
Melungeon History and Myth
The Portuguese Making of America: Melungeons and Early Settlers of America
Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County Virginia
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African Americans
The Gullah: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast
Revealing America’s Dark-Skinned Past, Vol. 2: The Columbian Era
Trace Your Roots with DNA: Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree
Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change
Greenbrier County, West Virginia: Reprinted from Early Historical Writings
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
The Tuscaroras: Mythology, Medicine, Culture
Santa Elena: A Brief History of the Colony, 1566-1587
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy
1870 U.S. Census – District 11, Hancock County, Tennessee
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians
Tazewell (Images of America)
Exploring Your Cherokee Ancestry: A Basic Genealogical Research Guide
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Appalachian Magazine’s Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the MountaineersMelungeon Voices S3 E5 – Janeen Stephens
South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
Beginning Black Indian History and Genealogy – the Cherokees
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
1619 – Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants
Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries
Swift’s Silver Mines and Related Appalachian Treasures
The Last Conquistadors of Southeast North America: Pedro Menéndez and the Collapse of La Florida’s Frontier
Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College
Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South 1776–1860
Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana’s Mystery People
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
1830 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, TennesseeMelungeon Voices S2 E2 – Jake Richards
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830Melungeon Voices S2 E6 – Lauren Magnussen
Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indian Tribe
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s RidgeMelungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill Gipson
Mother of RainThe Graysville Melungeons: A Tri-Racial People in Lower East Tennessee
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice
Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism
Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be)
Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
“Not Negroes nor Slaves but Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade
The ‘Twenty and Odd’: The Silences of Africans in Early Virginia Revealed
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed
Beyond the Sunset: The Melungeon Outdoor Drama, 1969-1976
1870 U.S. Census – Barnett’s Creek, Johnson County, Kentucky
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel)
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians
Measurement of Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790–2020The Melungeons’ Forbidden Black Ancestry
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
Black History in East Tennessee
A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States
An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States
The Complexities of Native Identity in America
The Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina
Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee
On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and TennesseeEpisode 11: No Safe Harbor, Part 2
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
The Other Side of the Coin: Race, Generations and Reconciliation
Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia
Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family
Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience and Identity
Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
Who the Hell Told You That?Melungeon Voices S1 E4 – Paul Johnson
More on the Free Black Population of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Speculations on the North African Connection
Melungeons Yesterday and Today
Review of “Washed in the Blood” by Lisa Alther
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of RaceMelungeon Voices S3 E4 – Ron Carson
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
1860 U.S. Census – Division 2, Morgan County, Kentucky
The Birth Certificate: An American History
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
The Cherokee Ghost DanceIn the Land of the Cherokee + the Warrior Dance
The Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. II
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South 1521-1704
American Migration Routes, Part 1: Indian Paths, Post Roads & Wagon Roads
King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American Revolution
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South
Some Superstitions in the Cumberland Mountains
Demon Copperhead
Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
2023 Melungeon Heritage Sound Project
Belles of the Creek Nation
Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches
Reading Early American Handwriting
The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
A History of the United States: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 – 1660Melungeon Voices S1 E5 – Robert Wells
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and GeorgiaEpisode 13: Black Paddywhackery, Part 1Melungeon Voices S4 E4 – Aaron Collins
Mysterious Kentucky, Vol. 2: The Dark and Bloody Ground
Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families
Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky MountainsEpisode 12: No Safe Harbor, Part 3Episode 15: Pre-Deliverance, Part 1Solving the Melungeon Mystery
History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 1: Portugal
Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
Madoc’s Legacy
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians
Letcher County (Images of America)
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
Toward a Genetic Profile of Melungeons in Southern Appalachia
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction
Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman’s RidgeMelungeon Voices S3 E6 – Gabriel Greaves
Black Drink: A Native American Tea
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth CenturyMelungeon Voices S1 E6 – Sonja Griffin Evans
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies
History of Pioneer Kentucky“Genocide in America”, John King (Day 1)
Researchers Tackle Mystery of the Melungeons
Black Indian Genealogy Research“What Ain’t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies”: Southern Appalachia’s In-Between People
Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry
Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia: A Study of the System of Indentured Labor in the American Colonies
The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians
Will Allen Dromgoole: A Biographical Sketch
1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List
Trees & Shrubs of Kentucky
Ancestral Lineage Healing
1860 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina (Lower Division)
Washed in the BloodMelungeon Voices S3 E3 – Katya Faris
Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle with Sketches of the Soldiers Who Took Part
The Malungeons
Revealing America’s Dark-Skinned Past, Vol. 1
History for Genealogists
The Mind of the South
Compilation of History of the Cherokee Indians and Early History of the Cherokees
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
Unravelling the Hidden Ancestry of American Admixed Populations
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
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